{"id":239260,"date":"2011-03-19T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/play-dead-todd-robbins-and-teller-the-players-theatre-new-york\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:11:46","slug":"play-dead-todd-robbins-and-teller-the-players-theatre-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/play-dead-todd-robbins-and-teller-the-players-theatre-new-york.php","title":{"rendered":"&#034;Play Dead,&#034; Todd Robbins and Teller, The Players Theatre, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-0f35faM6F7U\/TYFVPMNV9CI\/AAAAAAAACLw\/ec-Or2FV-Lg\/s1600\/TOUT_PlayDead1_credit_Thom%2BKaine_accordion_feature.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/88409_TOUT_PlayDead1_credit_Thom%2BKaine_accordion_feature.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>The other night, I took my boyfriend out for a night of good, scary, compelling fun at Todd Robbins' and Teller's (of Penn and Teller) new production \"Play Dead,\" on view now at The Players Theatre in New York City.<\/p><p>The production is difficult to describe in normal theater terms; it is kind of like a haunted house meets a 1950s ghost show meets a piss take on a Victorian s&eacute;ance meets a high-end Vegas magic show all staged on a David Lynch film set. The main presence in the production is side-show performer Todd Robbins; he has a wonderfully compelling presence, equal parts passionate story teller, confidence man, and emphatic and empathetic debunker of spiritualist trickery. The piece is a kind of fun yet thoughtful meditation on the mysteries of death, the history of historical monsters in their various forms, and the ways--compellingly demonstrated in the show--that death and loss <span>still <\/span>make us easy prey for \"spiritualist\" hucksters.<\/p><p>I don't want to say too much more, as so much of the fun of the production come from the element of surprise, but I will say this: I was seriously amazed; I was amused; and we are<span> still<\/span> talking about it. I very much recommend checking it out.<\/p><p>\"Play Dead\" is being staged at The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street, New York. You can find out more--and get tickets--by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playdeadnyc.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p>Full disclosure: I received free tickets from the Play Dead Production Company in exchange for  reviewing this show. Lucky for me I really really enjoyed it! And so did my impartial boyfriend.<\/p><p>Image: From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studio360.org\/\">the Studio 360 website<\/a>.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/88409_6582997874621015158-1127842601433669592?l=morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night, I took my boyfriend out for a night of good, scary, compelling fun at Todd Robbins' and Teller's (of Penn and Teller) new production \"Play Dead,\" on view now at The Players Theatre in New York City.The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/play-dead-todd-robbins-and-teller-the-players-theatre-new-york.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anatomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}